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Lesson #1 from the Hacking Team hack: Use strong passwords

Italy’s controversial Hacking Team supplies spyware and surveillance technology to countries and law enforcement agencies around the world. Hackers stole 400 GB of data including source code, confidential documents, and email archives. Christian Pozzi, a senior system and security engineer for the company, was directly impacted by the hack. The hackers appear to have successfully compromised Pozzis Firefox browser password store, revealing a slew of poorly chosen login credentials rather than the complex, hard-to-crack, unique passwords that most security professionals would recommend.”]

Source: https://grahamcluley.com/hacking-team-strong-passwords/

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